Making Valentine's

My mom called and said she was sending stuff to my brother and wondered if the kids wanted to make Uncle Jordan some Valentine's. As I've said before my brother is on a mission in Chile. This sounded like a fun idea so when the girls got home from school yesterday we pulled out the art supplies and made some Valentine's. They all did a fabulous job!

Haley working hard to make a beautiful pink Valentine

If you look closely it says I love you and your girlfriend. Now I have to explain. About a year before my brother went on his mission he met and baptized his girlfriend Melissa. Melissa is now serving a mission in Spain. So do I let this Valentine go? Or do I tell her it's not acceptable to have boyfriends/girlfriends when you are a missionary and now Uncle Jordan will have some explaining to do to whoever sees this Valentine so we must make a new one? Yeah, I don't think I'll go that route. I'll just say she's a sweet 6 year old who loves both Jordan and Melissa and wanted to express that love!

Oh, that marker smells good! I better stick it up my nostril so I know I'm smelling it right!!

Obviously the blue and orange smelled the best. What cracked me up was he asked to see the picture after I took it. He instantly grabbed his nose and started yelling "Who did that to my nose?" and "What's on my nose?" I was laughing so hard that I couldn't say anything!

I want to be Savannah's friend

This post involves no pics. I know I can hear the gasps! I never post without pics, so much for never. So Matthew and Savannah can play really well together (when they're not fighting...... ha, ha) but seriously they do really well together. So on Thursday and Friday Haley and Savannah had early release which meant Matthew and Savannah got more time to play. They had a great time on Thursday and were doing great on Friday when Savannah had an unexpected friend stop by to visit. Matthew still wanted to be in the mix of things so he followed the girls around for a little while then they asked if they could play alone. I have to say that when friends come to our house I don't spend my whole time keeping siblings from joining in the fun. Sorry but you have brothers and sisters besides that would be extremely tiring to do. Having said that I do allow a little bit of time where they can play by themselves without interruptions, sometimes. Now I'm just rambling.....ok so Matthew didn't like the idea of leaving them alone and decided to push Brooklyn (Savannah's friend). I made him apologize to Brooklyn then he had to sit in time out. Usually he cries, throws a fit or other random disruptive 3 year old behavior. But this time he quietly sat in time out. After time out we talked about what happened and why we don't do that. He then wanted to apologize again to Brooklyn. I let him, of course. Then we sat back down and he said, through big alligator tears, "I want to be Savannah's friend". I told him she was more than his friend she was his sister which makes them friends forever. He just looked at me and said "But I want to be her friend now". What was so sweet was that he was not yelling or angry, he was just sad, so so sad and it broke my heart. So we grabbed a blanket, cuddled on the couch and watched Oswald.

Rock on!!

Okay, I promise this is the last post of our fun weekend! (FYI - I realize I added these posts backwards so you'll have to go back two posts to start at the beginning of our weekend) So after the park the girls went shopping and out to dinner and then we traded the boys and they went to a movie. When the boys came home we decided to pull out Rock Band. We had such a blast!! We all agreed that "Eye of the Tiger" was a favorite!

Brett was a fabulous singer!!

My mom was having so much fun! I think she would have taken anyone down who would have gotten between her and the drums!

Yes I included a pic of me singing in my pj's

The looks of concentration were great!

As you can see we rotated the instruments, there were 6 adults and we all wanted a turn!

The "band"

My sister is a hard core rocker!

Judd was LOVING that everyone was having fun with his new game!

Rock on!!

The park

What a beautiful day Saturday was!! We decided to go to the school just down the road and play for a little bit. We packed a lunch, some balls and bats and had a great time. My Dad & Mom came with us to join in the fun!

The adults were all standing around talking and my Mom heads off to go swing on the swings. We could all hear her laughing and Jaclyn decided it sounded so fun she'd join her!

I love the expression on Savannah's face, Matthew's is good too!

Matthew loved putting on the helmet and being the ball boy

down the slide Haley goes

Luke simply enjoyed watching everyone run around

Savannah taking a swing

Matthew and Jaclyn walking up the slide

Havin' fun together

Blake & Jaclyn

Michael and Joyell's Wedding

On Friday my cousin Michael got married. My sister and her family (from Seattle) came into town for the wedding and stayed with us. We had SO much fun this weekend! I took lots of pics and have decided to do several blog entries to cover all our fun times! These pics are at the wedding reception on Friday night. I had one dead battery and one with barely any juice left (why do I keep doing that?!) Sadly I do not have one of the bride and groom - they looked great, trust me!

Savannah borrowed Joyell's bouquet and wanted me to take her picture, practice makes perfect!

Haley was in charge of the table out front, she was a VIP for the night

Yummmmm, chocolate cake

Can I just say how much I LUV my Grandpa!

Jaclyn was so happy Matthew wanted to dance with her!

Almost kissing cousins!

We had promised the kids they could watch a movie together when we got home that night. Of course with a movie comes pillows, blankets, pj's and popcorn!

Tyson was so sweet to share his Spiderman pillow with Luke!

It was hard not to step on little people as I made my way out of there!

My boys

Yesterday Matthew and Luke had a good day together. They both were in good moods (added bonus!) and Matthew was paying a lot of attention to Luke, which Luke LOVES!

Matthew is trying to show Luke his hand he colored on. And we wonder where they learn these silly things from?!?!

Rolling around together

Watching a cartoon

I love my boys!!

Haley's piano recital

Haley started piano lessons this past fall and Saturday morning was her first recital. She was very nervous! We had a talk on the way there about how doing your best and being perfect aren't the same thing (my poor little perfectionist!) She did great and as she'll tell you it was perfect because she didn't mess up once. Whewww!! It was fun to get to see the kids who have been taking lessons for 10 + years, very inspiring...."Someday that'll be me", she says.

You did great Hays and we're very proud of you!!

What did you get for Christmas?

Luke is very interested in what his siblings got for Christmas. I think he's enjoying their toys just as much as they are. Here's a few pics of him with their presents over the past few weeks. Sometimes I watch him and ask "What did you get for Christmas?" Obviously he dosen't answer......... he just smiles and giggles!

Hmmmm......whatcha' got Haley?

Now I can see better!

Here he is rolling around with Matthew's Optimus Prime pillow

Wanting to get to know Lola better

It wasn't her, it was her pacifier

Caught red-handed

My Superhero

Matthew from time to time loves to be a superhero. He'll tuck anything down the back of his pants and leave part of it hanging out. I assume that he thinks he's making a cape with the item he's chosen. We're not too sure what superhero he saw who had something hanging out the back of his pants, but that's how he transforms into one. Much like superman tearing his shirt off, I assume. He'll say "Mom, look what superheros do" as he runs around and jumps off my furniture. So today he was pantless and used my nursing shield (See Cheryn, it has other uses!) to transform himself. These are certainly not the first pics of him being a superhero and most likely won't be the last. What a funny boy he is!

I had barely grabbed my camera when he decided to jump off my couch

I think I'll need to wash the nursing shield before I use it again!

The last and final jump I allowed!

Lots of running around to find and fight the bad guys